State seeks to try juvenile as adult in IHOP killing

A prosecutor is seeking the transfer of a juvenile charged in a fatal shooting outside an IHOP to adult court, records show.

Shelby County Assistant District Attorney General Christopher West filed notice Wednesday seeking the transfer of the teen, Sebastian Vaughn.

Vaughn is charged with killing 35-year-old Marlo Williams.

Officers responded at about 4:27 p.m. Monday to a call of a man down at the IHOP in the 1600 block of Sycamore View. Williams was bleeding and unresponsive in the driver's seat of his car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Vaughn was arrested and gave a statement admitting he and the victim were meeting for a drug transaction, West wrote in court records.

'Vaughn advised during the transaction he shot Williams and prior to leaving the scene he took the money off of Williams' person,' according to the prosecutor's filing.

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